Capital:La Paz
Population:9,247,816
Languages:Spanish 60.7% (official), Quechua 21.2% (official), Aymara 14.6% (official), foreign languages 2.4%, other 1.2%
Religion:Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%
Life Expectancy:66.53 years
GDP per-capita:$4,000
Of Interest:Bolivia has the lowest GDP per capita figures in South America, and is one of the least developed countries in South America. The "Salar de Uyuni," the world's largest salt flat, lies in the southwest corner of the country. Home to a rich heritage of folklore, where popular "devil dances" are performed at traditional carnivals.
Location:Central South America, southwest of Brazil
Voice of God Recordings - Bolivia
Office Manager: Brother Juan Tarqui
Short History of Office Manager: Brother Juan has been a distributor for 20 years. For 17 of the last 20 years he worked full time for Lloyd Aero Boliviano the national airlines of Bolivia. A few years ago, Brother Juan and all the employees lost their jobs, because the airline went bankrupt. Since then he has been working full time.
Years ago our brother's work at the airline was very instrumental to VGR in sending the cassettes of Brother Branham to Bolivia. Unable at that time to send material there by crate we had to send all the material by way of the Post Office. However sending the cassettes was very expensive because of the Customs expense. Through the airlines he worked for, he was able to arrange to put the cassettes on the LAB flight to La Paz at no charge, and he would get the cassettes as the airplane arrived and avoid Customs.
Today, Brother Juan is very active in visiting the brothers and sisters who live in the remote areas of the country. This involves long hours of travel under some very dangerous conditions, as the country is going through some very hard economic and political problems.